Highland Park Elementary

Highland Park Elementary is one of the moderately sized elementary schools in SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, one of the schools within Saint Paul Public Schools, with 406 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Saint Paul Public Schools comprises 87 schools with combined enrollment of 33,152 students; Highland Park Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Highland Park Elementary shows that 49% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 21% White, 14% multiracial, 11% Hispanic, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 12% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Ramsey County (around 57%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Highland Park Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.1%, the actual is 21.6%, a residual of -4.6 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Ramsey County) logs that median household earnings sit near $81,568, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Ramsey County runs 302 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students), of which Highland Park Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Early Ed Highland, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Highland Park Elementary comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.0%.

Highland Park Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 409 students in 2018 compared to 406 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 30% to 21% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

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